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The Secret History Of Jane Roe

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Norma McCorvey - The Poster Child

Norma McCorvey was a complicated person personally, morally, in all sorts of ways. She wanted at that point to become an advocate, but they marginalized her. When then in 1995, she's working at an abortion clinic in Texas. And as is sort of the way often of people who oppose abortion, they set up shop right next to an abortion clinic setting up what they call a crisis pregnancy center. The man there was named Flip Benham and he ingratiates himself to Norma. He wants to hold me, sort of hug her and hold her close. But just like Norma didn't feel at home on the pro-choice side, she doesn't feel at

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